FOTEK Offender Assessment Manual (EN)

O ffender A ssessment Sys tem OASys User Manual OASys Manual V2 © Crown Copyright 2002

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The OASys development team:

OASys Manual Contents Acknowledgements The OASys team would like to thank all those practitioners in the prison and the probation services who participated in the three pilot phases of the development project. Their patient work and thoughtful feedback has been of real benefit to the project. Thanks also to Colin Roberts, Probation Studies Unit, Centre for Criminological Research, University of Oxford and Peter Raynor, University of Wales, Swansea, who acted as consultants to the development process. We are particularly grateful to Colin for making available to the project his detailed knowledge and experience of the issues associated with the implementation of ACE and ASSET.

The OASys development team:

Sarah Mann, OASys project manager, National Probation Directorate (NPD) Danny Clark, research manager, NPD Trish Wincote, joint head ‘What Works in Prison’ unit, OASys Prison Service lead Natasha Garnham, senior research officer, Home Office Victoria Tunbridge, research psychologist, Prison Service Kath Dodgson , research officer, Home Office Julia Stephens-Row, development manager, NPD (until Jan 2001) Jan Davis, implementation manager, NPD (from Feb 2001) Trisha Borrows, assistant development and implementation manager Nigel Foote, governor, policy development, Prison Service Stuart McPhillips, Association of Chief Officers of Probation Sue Hall , Association of Chief Officers of Probation Joe Kuipers, HM Inspectorate of Probation Di Askwith, HM Inspectorate of Probation Steve Lusted, project secretary (until December 2000) Nadeem Mohammed, project secretary (from April 2001) June 2001 OASys Manual Crown Copyright 2001

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Changes to sentence(s) and offence(s) resulting from appeal 32Chapter 6: Risk of reconviction and offending-related factors: OASys 1 and 2

Contents Chapter 1: Introduction to OASys What Works 1 An effective risk needs assessment 3 What is OASys? 3 Benefits of OASys 3 Chapter 2: The development of OASys Clinical versus actuarial risk assessment 5 Social/dynamic factors 7 User surveys 9 Components of OASys 10 Risk of reconviction and offending-related factors 12 Overview of OASys 13 OASys 1 and OASys 2 14 Analysis of the risk of serious harm, risks to the individual, and other risks 18 Supervision and sentence planning 20 Chapter 3:

Gathering information, handling discrepancies and managing information that may not be disclosed to the offender Gathering information 21 Handling discrepancies 21 Factors to take into account when completing OASys 22 Managing information that may not be disclosed to the offender 22 Chapter 4: Self-assessment The purpose of self-assessment 25 When should the self assessment be completed? 25 How to complete the self-assessment 25 Basic skills 25 Is the self-assessment scored? 26 Chapter 5:

Case identification 27 Considering further offences 29 Case identification sheet 29 Offending information, section 1 30 Analysis of offences, section 2 31 Rescoring sections 3-12 31 Risk of harm and supervision and sentence planning 32 Changes to sentence(s) and offence(s) resulting from appeal 32 OASys Manual V2 © Crown Copyright 2002

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Chapter 9: Summary sheet

OASys Manual Contents Chapter 6: Risk of reconviction and offending-related factors: OASys 1 and 2 Scoring Sections 1 – 12 35 Using the ‘combined’ OASys form 36 Section 1: Offending information 36 OGRS 2 39 Offences by OGRS 2 category 40 Sentence Planning Risk Predictor (SPP) 41 Offences by SPP category 42 Section 2: Analysis of offences 44 Section 3: Accommodation 54 Section 4: Education, training and employability 58 Section 5: Financial management and income 66 Section 6: Relationships 71 Section 7: Lifestyle and associates 77 Section 8: Drug misuse 84 Section 9: Alcohol misuse 89 Section 10: Emotional wellbeing 94 Section 11: Thinking and behaviour 101 Section 12:

Attitudes 109 Section 13: Health and other considerations 115 Chapter 7: Scoring OASys Sections 1 – 12 Scoring individual items 119 OASys 1 scoring schedule – risk of reconviction Table 1 125 OASys 2 scoring schedule – risk of reconviction Table 2 126 Chapter 8: Risk of serious harm, risks to the individual, and other risks Background 128 Risk of serious harm – definitions 129 Assessment of risk of harm – definitions 129 Categories of those at risk 129 Screening Tool 131 Full analysis of risk of serious harm, 139 Summary of risk of serious harm, risk to the individual, and other risks 148 Assessment of risk of serious harm – definitions 151 Risk of serious harm:

how screening links to the full analysis 162 Chapter 9: Summary sheet Using the ‘combined’ OASys form 164 OASys Manual V2 © Crown Copyright 2002

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